2 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask at The Crosse Keys (JDW) London EC3 5 Feb 08. Pale golden colored. A small creamy head. Hardly any aroma. Watery all the way.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (handpump) @ The National Winter Ales Festival 2008, Manchester, UK. Clear medium amber orange color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, roasted, light hoppy, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average duration. (Malt bitter) Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. (180108)
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ The Sir John Oldcastle, JDW, Farringdon. Pours a slightly hazy golden color with small white head. Fruity malty and slightly hoppy aroma. Fruity hoppy and slightly bitter flavor. Sweetish malty hoppy finish, with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask handpull at County Hotel, Ashford JDW. Copper colour with lasting beige head. Creamy head. Citrus, hoppy aroma, little bit more intense than most English beers. Standard bitter in mouth, some malts, then an intense tight acidic grapefruit finish. Acids are puckering and drying. The brewer really has thrown a whole load of hops at this. Startling. Needs more balance with malt structure. Hops are intense but too tight and a tad metallic. Good enough for a second pint though.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at Wetherspoons, Milton Keynes. Amber with an off white head. Hoppy aroma and a spicy fruit flavour. The first taste is particularly inviting. Later impression is that this is a decent, straightforward beer with not much complexity beyond a sharply bitter finish. But it’s worth a try.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask hand-pump at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell. Chestnut with a white head; hoppy aroma; sharply bitter and fruity taste with a long bitter finish. A refreshing, but very straightforward bitter.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask conditioned - handpump - JDW Northampton. A copper coloured beer with a whitish head. The aroma is fruity and hoppy with some great pink grapefruit and blood orange notes. The taste has good orangey hops. A decent full body and long finish with balancing malts. A tasty well brewed beer.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Aroma is malty biscuit with a bit of grass. Taste is simialr though lackign any character and the end to a nite.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A Mes rate:
Cask at Baker Street ’Spoons. Copper colour with a thin tan head. Aromatic hoppy nose. Not sure what is going wrong in the flavour but I think a bit of the Mersey got in there. Not great by any means.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Half pint on gravity. Amber in colour. Low level of foam. Inviting citrus aroma. Refreshing fruitiness - lemon and oranges - and hoppy flavour. Additional notes of biscuit and caramel. Some hoppy bitter in a rather dry ending. Quite interesting brew (Ipswich Beer Festival, 22.09.2006).
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